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The North Carolina Republican Party has voted to censure Sen. Richard Burr over his vote to convict former President Donald Trump during Trump’s second impeachment trial.

The final day of the Senate impeachment trial ended in the acquittal of former President Donald Trump. Here are other key moments from the day.

Jaime Herrera Beutler has spent a decade in Congress as a low-key moderate Republican who largely avoided heated partisan battles

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., drew a direct line between former President Donald Trump’s actions and the Capitol Riot, but he said the now-private citizen was ineligible for conviction. “[Trump] was practically and morally responsible for provoking events of the day,” McConnell said. “This [impeachment] question is moot because former President Trump is constitutionally not eligible for conviction.”

In a 57-43 vote Saturday, the U.S. Senate moved to acquit former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection.

Michael van der Veen, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, placed blame on the rioters for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “There were no words of incitement,” van der Veen said. “You can allow America’s healing to begin. I urge the Senate to acquit and vindicate the Constitution of this great republic.”

In a closing argument during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., urged senators to do “impartial justice.” “Senators, this trial is not about Donald Trump,” Raskin said. “The country and the world know who Donald Trump is. This trial is about who we are… Godspeed to the Senate of the United States.”

Lawyers for Donald Trump are arguing that his impeachment trial is no more than a campaign of “hatred” against the former president

Donald Trump’s attorneys have wrapped up their impeachment defense

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team took to the Senate floor Friday after two days of an emotional presentation by House impeachment managers centered on chilling video of the Capitol siege.

The fourth day included a question-and-answer session and culminated with Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his actions on Jan. 6. Here are other key moments from the day.

Donald Trump’s defense team in his impeachment trial is asserting that he called for non-violent protest when he spoke to his followers at a rally prefacing their assault on the Capitol last month

When asked “exactly when” former President Donald Trump learned of the breach at the U.S. Capitol, Trump attorney did not answer the question. “On the day, we have a tweet [from Trump] at 2:48, so it was certainly sometime before then,” one of Trump’s attorneys said.

As the defense wrapped their case for former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial, Trump’s attorney Bruce Castor imparted words of warning for both Democrat and Republican senators.

Donald Trump incited a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, put his own vice president in danger and later expressed solidarity with rioters who attempted to overturn the 2020 election in his name.

Democratic prosecutors in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial are arguing that dire harm from his false and violent incitements will long vex American democracy unless the Senate convicts him of impeachment and bars him from future office

House managers leading the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump wrapped up their case Thursday. Here are the top moments you may have missed.

House Democrats will begin two days of arguments Wednesday in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. They will try to convince skeptical Republican senators that the former president alone was responsible for inciting the mob of supporters who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and interrupted the presidential electoral count.

At the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., argued Thursday that the First Amendment is not a defense for inciting an insurrection, quoting Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by saying, “You can’t ride with the cops but root for the robbers.”

House managers prosecuting former President Donald Trump will continue presenting their impeachment case Thursday, one day after showing dramatic video Wednesday of the January 6th insurrection not publicly released before.